Re: Heads up: persistent journal has been enabled in systemd

[Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 2020-02-06 at 16:09 +0000, Philip Hands wrote:
> > > I solved this by removing Systemd from my systems.
> > > 
> > > And now what?
> Well, since we're apparently meant to be obsessed about what it is
> like to accept every default, then let's assume for a moment that you
> are asking about rsyslog with the maintainer supplied rsyslog.conf.
> 
> Having just installed this laptop, I can run this:
> 
> # grep -r '5590629f1f60.*delivery successful' /var/log
> /var/log/mail.log:Feb  6 14:51:14 rummy dma[164f55.5590629f1f60]:
> delivery successful
> /var/log/mail.log:Feb  6 14:51:14 rummy dma[164f55.5590629f1f60]:
> delivery successful
> /var/log/mail.info:Feb  6 14:51:14 rummy dma[164f55.5590629f1f60]:
> delivery successful
> /var/log/syslog:Feb  6 14:51:14 rummy dma[164f55.5590629f1f60]:
> delivery successful
> which you'll note is actually triplicating log messages by default.

On a Debian sytem _not_ running systemd:

du -sh /var/log
74M	/var/log

And the binary logs from systemd would of course be much smaller since
they are binary. Any numbers?

HTH!